Author Archives: Karl

Last chance for planet Earth?

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It is the Olympics of world politics.

For nearly two weeks, starting tomorrow, more than 100 nations and 65,000 delegates will convene in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The mission of the World Summit for Sustainable Development has been stated many ways, but those involved say it boils down to this: to save the planet from ecological devastation and rescue billions of people from wretched poverty.

Read the rest in this Philadelphia Inquirer article.

What happens when the rest of the world get’s together to make the world a better place? We don’t participate. Kinda like the popular kid that wants to be the center of attention and is pissed off that everyone else is putting something together – it’s up to the popular kid to swallow his ego and get involved.

Here goes a great weblog covering the summit. Thanks Shelley.

Moving, smoking, programming, stuff

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Today we’re gonna finish up at the old apartment. Cleaning. After today, we will never be going back. Out with the old, in with the new.

The DNS refreshed and now I’m finished migrating between my old host and my new one – Kattare. The JSP/Servlet community is hot on this host and in particular it is the home of Blogging Roller. My old ISP, while feature rich, had performance problems. So far I’m blown away by how fast MovableType seems here.

Now, after all this moving, I can get back to, in my private time, working on Cofax. Lots of documentation to write, including thank yous. A new release should be out shortly. I can also get back to my experimenting. That means I’ll hopefully get a chance to try out Roller real soon now.

Not only that – but I can get back to working with my recorder 🙂 I have tons of songs I can finally share.

That fire did a real number on my schedule.

Thanks for the support on the smokes. Still going strong. It will be one week at midnight tonight. The worst part of it now are the waves of… saddness… that I am experiencing. Real heavy weights on my chest. I know they are smoking related and should disappear soon. But they really suck.

Banned Books Week – Celebrate Freedom

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The message of Banned Books Week is more than the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular. The essential message of Banned Books Week is the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.

Read the rest at ALA.org.

A great idea for the week of September 21?28, 2002. Hey, would someone like to rig up a page pointing to booksellers based upon the lists provided?

So You Wanna Be a Web Programmer?

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This JavaPro article says you should learn;

  1. HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
  2. Servlets and JSP
  3. JavaScript
  4. Structured Query Language (SQL) and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
  5. Web Container Administration and Application Deployment
  6. eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
  7. Model 2 Architecture, JSP Standard Tag Libraries (JSTL)
  8. Jakarta Taglibs Project and Other Libraries, Apache’s Struts Project,
  9. EXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
  10. Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
  11. Applet Programming
  12. The HTTP Protocol
  13. Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
  14. Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)

Temporary URL until DNS refreshes

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Ahh the new home.

I couldn’t take the old host’s speed any longer, and I’ve heard good things about Kattare. So here I am (along with a set of other sites I manage).

A big thank you to Scott for the help 🙂. You saved the day.

I went the export/import route. If this were a non-personal site, or one which I knew users were linking to individual posts (I know they’re not here except for the hoax I accidently published last month), I would have went with your MySQL suggestion. In anycase, my static content hasn’t link-rotted 🙂